Sentences with phrase «working against freedom»

We have overthrown and worked against freedom fighters when it suited our purposes.

It's the level direction and game design that seems to work against the freedom that was ingrained into the original.

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«This is a liberating work of the Spirit, who liberates the oppressed from their oppression, and liberates the oppressors from their oppressing, leading all to a new relationship of equality and freedom, in which each person is fully able to be who they were created to be without having to define themselves over and against others.

We've work too long and too hard making this country a bastion of freedom and tolerance to let a small minority of unrelenting hater - mongers manipulate us and turn us against ourselves and our principles.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

But the relief of REAL freedom and REAL choice inherent in the Obama and Senate wins is palpable, and we can also rest easy that the Supreme Court will not be filled up with more people - haters working against this country.

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

I'm not saying it's the best solution, but our law provides that all people will enjoy religious freedom and that they will not be penalized or discriminated against for observing their religious holidays at school or work.

It is decisive for the Christian that this objectivation comes to pass precisely through freedom, for only in this way will doctrine, rites, etc., truly belong to the free person who realizes himself before God, either towards or against him, and thus becomes the person who will be able to work out either his salvation or his eternal loss.

But there is a work of God in the midst of this dark reality which brings forth matured, self - reliant, free persons whose freedom has been nurtured by their participation in that friction of will against will which makes up so much of life.

Although he does not share the theological freedom so radiantly on display in Balthasar's work, and indeed is rather phobic toward Christianity, Harold Bloom echoes Balthasar's insistence on the primacy of the aesthetic and even comes close to seeing how resentment against aesthetic primacy is rooted in, and arises from, an ideologization of culture that will fear all true singularities, relative or otherwise.

Against H. Richard's emphasis on human finitude and dependence, Reinhold's awareness of human freedom and the Christian's political responsibility seems better to acknowledge the creative and liberating possibilities of moral action and of God's work in history.

February 2011 — Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years, Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress.

The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel against God, many elements of God's creation spun out of control, that is, they no longer work in coordination with all the other parts of God's creation.

A Christian community has the responsibility to work for peace in freedom and justice in human society, against hatred and violence.

There are obviously a number of things that United need to work on before seriously challenging next season but the recent performance against City showed what the Reds can do if they were given the freedom to express themselves.

«As a lifelong progressive, he's fought for equal pay for equal work, reproductive freedom and ending discrimination against women by insurance companies,» James said in a statement released by the senator's campaign.

An absence of violence against innocent people would mean there's freedom to trade, but their ignorant bashing of free trade, the failure to mention that great violence as a least one of the sources of today's immense poverty, and their declared need to control the whole world for it to work, seems to say this is nearly exactly like communism.

He said it was a battle against those who seek to suppress freedom and seek to assert «some form of religious tyranny; a threat in the name of God but is truthfully the work of the devil».

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

Germany is quite an amazing country, where unlimited freedom to work and explore new directions meets strict order and iron discipline, where unlimited resources come up against strict planning and careful pragmatism, and where politeness and courtesy are mixed with a special sense of humour and generosity.

The Silver and Gold payment plans also work against casual users, as the Silver plan is still restricted, forcing people to go with the more expensive Gold plan if they want total freedom.

Strength, however, is the perfect word to describe the stunning images of Evgeny Afineevsky's Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, assembled almost entirely of blood - in - eye footage from the trenches of the massive Maidan protests against then - president Viktor Yanukovych and his government allies, who worked against the nation's EU agreement.

I am merely disagreeing with your badly written hit piece against freedom of expression plus you seem to be getting extremely worked up over something that is really none of your business.

The whole «freedom of the press» thing works especially well when you apply it against any decision that makes it sound like you are trying to prevent readers from purchasing books from their favorite source, B&N and Ingram discovered.

Because how do you tell people, «Well this great device that works really well, and it's the smoothest check - out process of any device or format that we offer here in the library — but it violates your privacy, it jeopardizes your intellectual freedom, and, you know, it might kinda be against state law, but I'm not really sure.»

Together Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and ArtWorks for Freedom feature the work of Kay Chernush in this new exhibit, which examines the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking.

Questioning the perceived freedom that artists hold vs, say, the strict brief that the illustrator is understood to work to, Tye's work finds inspiration in expected places, and suggests an openness of expression and artistic control that goes against this stereotype.

Known worldwide for his brave disobedience during the Cold War in illegally painting miles of the Berlin Wall, Thierry Noir's work stands as a symbol of freedom and an act of defiance against walls, borders, and persecution.

Guston's work perpetually argues for freedom and against injustice; in his youth he was acquaintance to political and artistic Mexican Muralist luminaries Rivera and Siquerios, the latter of whom was quoted in Time Magazine in the 30's as viewing the artist as one of ««the most promising [of] painters in either the US or Mexico.»

It adds up to a rebuttal against «the predominance of material on African Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations,» as Cornell's Katherine Reagan says — these images show African Americans asserting their normality and freedom after the distorting horrors of slavery.

What was formerly the UBS Art Gallery in New York exhibited five decades of Tworkov's work in the 2009 show Against Extremes, «a tantalizing historical survey» charting everything from his de Kooning roots to his omnipresent «dream of freedom».

Like Emin, Blake stood against the constrictions of the society of his day, with a liberal approach to sexual freedom shown through the works presented.

Set against a backdrop of Cold War conformity, abstract expressionists often saw their work as the ultimate statement of romantic individuality and artistic freedom.

Still, you and your associates are doing important work in «Defending the Ramparts of (Scientific) Freedom against the Forces of Darkness».

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The line between religious freedom and occupational heath and safety can be a blurry one, as evidenced in a recent Quebec Superior Court decision where three Sikh men (the employees) brought a claim against their employer who would not allow them to work without hard hats on.

We will work diligently to have the charges against you reduced or dismissed, preserve your freedom and clear your name.

210 to 213) infringe s. 2 (d) freedom of association rights because these provisions prevent prostitutes from joining together to increase their personal safety; s. 7 security of the person rights due to the possibility of arrest and imprisonment and because the provisions prevent prostitutes from taking steps to improve the health and safety conditions of their work; s. 15 equality rights because the provisions discriminate against members of a disadvantaged group; and s. 2 (b) freedom of expression rights by making illegal communication which could serve to increase safety and security.

«Against what is for many a backdrop of uncertainty and change, we hope this will give barristers and other lawyers more freedom to react to changes in the market and to devise new ways of working so as to remain competitive and best serve their clients.

Discriminating against EU workers, whether deliberate or inadvertently, goes against one of the EU's founding principles — the freedom to live and work anywhere in the EU.